{"title":"Billy Collins","description":"Billy Collins is the author of twelve collections of poetry including The Rain in Portugal, Aimless Love, Horoscopes for the Dead, Ballistics, The Trouble with Poetry, Nine Horses, Sailing Alone Around the Room, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. He is also the editor of Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, and Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds. A former Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, Collins served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003 and as New York State Poet from 2004 to 2006. In 2016 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Florida with his wife Suzannah.","products":[{"product_id":"aimless-love-new-and-selected-poems-paperback","title":"Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - From the two-term Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins comes his first volume of new and selected poems in twelve years. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"America's favorite poet.\"\u003ci\u003e--The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAimless Love\u003c\/i\u003e combines fifty new poems with generous selections from his four most recent books--\u003ci\u003eNine Horses, The Trouble with Poetry, Ballistics, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Horoscopes for the Dead. \u003c\/i\u003eCollins's unmistakable voice, which brings together plain speech with imaginative surprise, is clearly heard on every page, reminding us how he has managed to enrich the tapestry of contemporary poetry and greatly expand its audience. His work is featured in top literary magazines such as \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, and he sells out reading venues all across the country. Appearing regularly in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e series, his poems appeal to readers and live audiences far and wide and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. By turns playful, ironic, and serious, Collins's poetry captures the nuances of everyday life while leading the reader into zones of inspired wonder. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the poet's own words, he hopes that his poems \"begin in Kansas and end in Oz.\" Touching on the themes of love, loss, joy, and poetry itself, these poems showcase the best work of this \"poet of plenitude, irony, and Augustan grace\" \u003ci\u003e(The New Yorker).\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51375578841311,"sku":"9780812982671","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/CPrv9uSfFk9780812982671.webp?v=1789203778"},{"product_id":"musical-tables-poems-paperback","title":"Musical Tables: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the former United States Poet Laureate and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAimless Love, \u003c\/i\u003ea collection of more than 135 small poems, eleven of them new to this edition, and each a thought or observation compressed to its emotional essence\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Whenever I pick up a new book of poems, I flip through the pages looking for small ones. Just as I might have trust in an abstract painter more if I knew he or she could draw a credible chicken, I have faith in poets who can go short.\"--Billy Collins\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou can spot a Billy Collins poem immediately. The amiable voice, the light touch, the sudden turn at the end. He \"puts the 'fun' back in profundity,\" says poet Alice Fulton. In his own words, his poems tend to \"begin in Kansas and end in Oz.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow \"America's favorite poet\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) has found a new form for his unique poetic style: the small poem. Here Collins writes about his trademark themes of nature, animals, poetry, mortality, absurdity, and love--all in a handful of lines. Neither haiku nor limerick, the small poem pushes to an extreme poetry's famed power to condense emotional and conceptual meaning. Inspired by the small poetry of writers as diverse as William Carlos Williams, W.S. Merwin, Kay Ryan, and Charles Simic, and written with Collins's recognizable wit and wisdom, the poems of \u003ci\u003eMusical Tables\u003c\/i\u003e show one of our greatest poets channeling his unique voice into a new phase of his exceptional career. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e3:00 AM\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOnly my hand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eis asleep, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ebut it's a start.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51375585853663,"sku":"9780399589805","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ZSp-7hxMc29780399589805.webp?v=1789203795"},{"product_id":"nine-horses-poems-paperback","title":"Nine Horses: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Nine Horses, Billy Collins, America s Poet Laureate for 2001 2003, continues his delicate negotiation between the clear and the mysterious, the comic and the elegiac. The poems in this collection reach dazzling heights while being firmly grounded in the everyday. Traveling by train, lying on a beach, and listening to jazz on the radio are the seemingly ordinary activities whose hidden textures are revealed by Collins s poetic eye. With clarity, precision, and enviable wit, Collins transforms those moments we too often take for granted into brilliant feats of creative imagination. Nine Horses is a poetry collection to savor and to share.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Nine Horses, Billy Collins, America's Poet Laureate for 2001-2003, continues his delicate negotiation between the clear and the mysterious, the comic and the elegiac. The poems in this collection reach dazzling heights while being firmly grounded in the everyday. Traveling by train, lying on a beach, and listening to jazz on the radio are the seemingly ordinary activities whose hidden textures are revealed by Collins's poetic eye. With clarity, precision, and enviable wit, Collins transforms those moments we too often take for granted into brilliant feats of creative imagination. Nine Horses is a poetry collection to savor and to share.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376755278047,"sku":"9780375755200","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/qcQ3KoPvu69780375755200.webp?v=1789225254"},{"product_id":"the-trouble-with-poetry-and-other-poems-paperback","title":"The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlayfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eWith his distinct voice and accessible language, America's two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike the present book's title, Collins's poems are filled with mischief, humor, and irony, \"Poetry speaks to all people, it is said, but here I would like to address \/ only those in my own time zone\"-but also with quiet observation, intense wonder, and a reverence for the everyday: \"The birds are in their trees, \/ the toast is in the toaster, \/ and the poets are at their windows. \/ They are at their windows in every section of the tangerine of earth-the Chinese poets looking up at the moon, \/ the American poets gazing out \/ at the pink and blue ribbons of sunrise.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough simple language, Collins shows that good poetry doesn't have to be obscure or incomprehensible, qualities that are perhaps the real trouble with most \"serious\" poetry: \"By now, it should go without saying \/ that what the oven is to the baker \/ and the berry-stained blouse to the drycleaner \/ so the window is to the poet.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this dazzling new collection, his first in three years, Collins explores boyhood, jazz, love, the passage of time, and, of course, writing-themes familiar to Collins's fans but made new here. Gorgeous, funny, and deeply empathetic, Billy Collins's poetry is a window through which we see our lives as if for the first time.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376755867871,"sku":"9780375755217","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/W-bdDU5qHV9780375755217.webp?v=1789225256"},{"product_id":"dog-show-poems-hardcover","title":"Dog Show: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF OPRAH'S FAVORITE THINGS! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNew York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins captures the essence and mystery of dogs in this special collection of poems inspired by our beloved companions, with striking watercolor canine portraits by Pamela Sztybel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs Oprah says on \u003ci\u003eOprah Daily \u003c\/i\u003eonline: \"This collection of 25 poems by Billy Collins is a sweet gift for dog lovers. 'A Dog on His Master' is a favorite of mine.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Everyone who has a dog--or still grieves for one--will find themselves in this collection of witty, sweet and poignant poems by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins . . [an] eminently giftable collection.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"There are lots of books about man's best friend, but none as sweet or as beautiful as \u003ci\u003eDog Show\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--\u003ci\u003eAir Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The pleasures here are many for Collins fans, dog lovers, and any reader looking for clever, poignant, and spirit-lifting poems accompanied by deft, lively, and affectionate paintings.\"\u003ci\u003e--Booklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBilly Collins's \u003ci\u003eDog Show\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the joy of our canine best friends, honoring the love we feel for the animals who play such vital roles in our lives. In twenty-five poems, Collins distills the many ways dogs warm our hearts, from the happiness we experience as we watch a dog run unencumbered by our burdens, to the silliness of cradling a dog in our arms as we step on the scale together. Turning his inimitable eye and ear to the complexities of dog behavior, Collins ponders all that these winning creatures give us and what we learn from them about ourselves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than four decades Collins has delighted readers with his insight, wit, and clear poetic voice. In \u003ci\u003eDog Show, \u003c\/i\u003e \"America's favorite poet\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) illuminates America's favorite pet (sorry, cat lovers). Accompanied by Pamela Sztybel's watercolors, which effortlessly depict a dog's humble grace, \u003ci\u003eDog Show \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the profound role these majestic animals play in our lives and the meaning they give us.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377322262751,"sku":"9780593979419","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/LL8-OtU53f9780593979419.webp?v=1789232797"},{"product_id":"sailing-alone-around-the-room-new-and-selected-poems-paperback","title":"Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSailing Alone Around the Room\u003c\/b\u003e, by America's Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections \u003cb\u003eThe Apple That Astonished Paris\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eQuestions About Angels\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Art of Drowning\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003ePicnic, Lightning\u003c\/b\u003e. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite. Possessed of a unique voice that is at once plain and melodic, Billy Collins has managed to enrich American poetry while greatly widening the circle of its audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSailing Alone Around the Room, by America's Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite. Possessed of a unique voice that is at once plain and melodic, Billy Collins has managed to enrich American poetry while greatly widening the circle of its audience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378240487647,"sku":"9780375755194","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/s5hfBJZc3T9780375755194.webp?v=1789250840"},{"product_id":"the-art-of-drowning-paperback-1","title":"The Art Of Drowning - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Gerald Stern describes his poetry as \"heartbreakingly beautiful.\" John Updike proclaims his poems \"consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides.\"This special, limited edition celebrates Billy Collins's years as U.S. Poet Laureate. \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Drowning\u003c\/i\u003e--one of the books that helped establish and secure his reputation and popularity during the 1990s--is distinctive in its variety of interests and the generous hospitality of its voice. Ranging from an analysis of Keats's handwriting to the art form of the calendar pinup, the subjects of his poems inspire imaginative play. Whether reading him for the first time or the fiftieth, this collector's edition is a must-have for anyone interested in the poet the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e calls simply \"the real thing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378343706847,"sku":"9780822955672","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0H9TtC1eW09780822955672.webp?v=1789254450"},{"product_id":"picnic-lightning-paperback","title":"Picnic, Lightning - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 1999 Paterson Poetry Prize \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, \"I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours.\" John Updike proclaims his poems \"consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis special, limited edition celebrates Billy Collins's years as U.S. Poet Laureate. \u003ci\u003ePicnic, Lightning\u003c\/i\u003e--one of the books that helped establish and secure his reputation and popularity during the 1990s--combines humor and seriousness, wit and sublimity. His poems touch on a wide range of subjects, from jazz to death, from weather to sex, but share common ground where the mind and heart can meet. Whether reading him for the first time or the fiftieth, this collector's edition is a must-have for anyone interested in the poet the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e calls simply \"the real thing.\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378344853727,"sku":"9780822956709","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/R2yXTN6Fje9780822956709.webp?v=1789254453"},{"product_id":"questions-about-angels-poems-paperback","title":"Questions about Angels: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eBilly Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, \"I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This special, limited edition celebrates Billy Collins's years as U.S. Poet Laureate. \u003ci\u003eQuestions About Angels\u003c\/i\u003e--one of the books that helped establish and secure his reputation and popularity during the 1990s--is remarkable for its wry, inquisitive voice and its sheer imaginative range. Edward Hirsch selected this classic book for the National Poetry Series, and each of Collins's poems-from his meditation on forgetfulness to his musings on the behavior of angels-is an exploration of imaginative possibilities. Whether reading him for the first time or the fiftieth, this collector's edition is a must-have for anyone interested in the poet the New York Times calls simply \"the real thing.\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378346524895,"sku":"9780822956983","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/2PLc1gQ94c9780822956983.webp?v=1789254457"},{"product_id":"ballistics-paperback","title":"Ballistics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this moving and playful collection, Billy Collins touches on an array of subjects--love, death, solitude, youth, and aging--delving deeper than ever before into the intricate folds of life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378355831007,"sku":"9780812975611","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/baoMVCeBfE9780812975611.webp?v=1789254482"},{"product_id":"water-water-poems-hardcover","title":"Water, Water: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the former Poet Laureate of the United States and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAimless Love\u003c\/i\u003e comes a wondrous new collection of poems focused on the joys and mysteries of daily life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Among the best poems that [Billy] Collins has ever written.\"--Maureen Corrigan, NPR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Witty, wry and tender when it hurts, \u003ci\u003eWater\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWater\u003c\/i\u003e is a pleasure to read and easy to give.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Collins remains the most companionable of poetic companions.\"\u003ci\u003e--The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e's Best New Books\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this collection of sixty new poems, Billy Collins writes about the beauties and ironies of everyday experience. 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